Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society articles from June 2006

Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society archives from June 2006

Australia and the Italo-Abyssinian crisis of 1935-6.
June 1, 2006... Current historiography argues that Joseph Lyons' United Australia Party [UAP]-Country Party [CP] conservative coalition government had no real influence on British policy over the Italo-Abyssinian crisis of 1935-6, and was little concerned...

An Australian Berlin and hotbed of disloyalty: shaming Germans in a country district during two world wars.
June 1, 2006... Local stories add not only colour, but also a sinister edge to accounts of anti-German attitudes, such as those related to internment that were recently explored at the national level by John Moses. (1) Moses and others have provided the wider...

'A life of noisy riot, of filth, indecency and profaneness': the convict voice and the bourgeois imagination.(deportes account of colonial Australia )
June 1, 2006... In February 1846 a lecture was held at the Philosophical Hall in Huddersfield, Yorkshire. Dressed in yellow and grey, the middle-aged speaker was a recently returned convict. The title of his lecture, 'Transportation and its consequent Horrors'...

'Life ... the manifestation of a purpose'. The uses of memoir in the writings of Mildura's De Garis siblings.(Critical essay)
June 1, 2006... Introduction The publication of an autobiography necessarily provides an additional aspect to the life of the writer. James Goodwin, in a study of autobiographical text, defines the autobiography strictly, claiming that 'as literary forms...

Shipboard refrigeration and the beginnings of the frozen meat trade.
June 1, 2006... The single event that led directly to the establishment of an international trade in frozen meat was the voyage in 1879-1880 of the sailing ship Strathleven carrying a shipment of forty tons of frozen beef, lamb and mutton from Sydney and...

Truth and fiction: the bequest of David Scott Mitchell: the 2005 John Alexander Ferguson Memorial Lecture.(Royal Australian Historical Society)
June 1, 2006... It is a great privilege to have been invited by the Royal Australian Historical Society to present the 2005 John Alexander Ferguson Memorial Lecture in honour of Sir John Ferguson, bibliographer and judge who was born in 1881 in Invercargill,...

Erin Ihde, Edward Smith Hall and the Sydney Monitor 1826-1840.(Book review)
June 1, 2006... Erin Ihde, Edward Smith Hall and the Sydney Monitor 1826-1840, Australian Scholarly Publishing, Melbourne, 2004, xxvi + 313 pages; ISBN 1 74097 0519. Edward Smith Hall is one of the many interesting figures who featured strongly in, and...

Margaret Fitzherbert, Liberal Women: Federation to 1949.(Book review)
June 1, 2006... Margaret Fitzherbert, Liberal Women: Federation to 1949, Federation Press, Sydney, 2004, xiii + 305 pages; ISBN 1 86287 460 3 In the witches' cauldron of backroom Australian politics and subsequent political reportage, little attention...

Jeff Atkinson, Mary Proctor: Convict, Pioneer and Settler.(Book review)
June 1, 2006... Jeff Atkinson, Mary Proctor: Convict, Pioneer and Settler, Rosenberg Publishing, Dural, 2005, 232 pages; ISBN 1877058300. Jeff Atkinson's narrative Mary Proctor: Convict, Pioneer and Settler is an excellent example of a well-researched...

Frank Cain, Jack Lang and the Great Depression.(Book review)
June 1, 2006... Frank Cain, Jack Lang and the Great Depression, Australian Scholarly Publishing, Melbourne, 2005, x + 393 pages; ISBN 1 74097 0748. Jack Lang is regarded as a 'dodgy' character in Australian history-no historian has a good word...

Martin Thomas, The Artificial Horizon: imagining the Blue Mountains.(Book review)
June 1, 2006... Martin Thomas, The Artificial Horizon: imagining the Blue Mountains, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 2003, 313 pages; ISBN 0 522 85072 3. This book won the Gleebooks' Prize for Literary and Cultural Criticism in the 2004 NSW...

Glenys McDonald, Seeking the Sydney: a quest for truth.(Book review)
June 1, 2006... Glenys McDonald, Seeking the Sydney: a quest for truth, University of Western Australia Press, Perth, 2005, xv + 248 pages; ISBN 1 920694 54 4. For those interested in wartime mysteries and naval history this book is a real library piece....

Elena Govor, Russian ANZACs in Australian History.(Book review)
June 1, 2006... Elena Govor, Russian ANZACs in Australian History, UNSW Press, Kensington, 2005, ix + 310 pages; ISBN 0868408565. Russian ANZACs is the story of the experiences of Russian immigrants in Australia during the twentieth century, focusing on...

Cameron Forbes, Hellfire: the story of Australia, Japan and the prisoners of War.(Book review)
June 1, 2006... Cameron Forbes, Hellfire: the story of Australia, Japan and the prisoners of war, Pan Macmillan Australia, Sydney, 2005, 559 pages; ISBN 1 40503650 8 55. This is a book which should appeal to mature readers of all ages, to those who lived...

Gwenda Tavan, The Long, Slow Death of White Australia.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 1, 2006... Gwenda Tavan, The Long, Slow Death of White Australia, Scribe Publications, Melbourne, 2005, 298 pages; ISBN 1 920769 46 3. This book was based on the author's 2002 PhD thesis at La Trobe University. It contains ten roughly chronological...

Keith Windschuttle, The White Australia Policy: race and shame in the Australian history wars.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 1, 2006... Keith Windschuttle, The White Australia Policy: race and shame in the Australian history wars, Macleay Press, Sydney, 2004, 370 pages; ISBN 1 876492 11 2. This is another in Keith Windschuttle's series of works on the 'politicisation of...

Christopher Cunneen (ed.), Australian Dictionary of Biography supplement 1580-1980.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 1, 2006... Christopher Cunneen (ed.), Australian Dictionary of Biography supplement 1580-1980, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 2005, xxii + 520 pages; ISBN 0 522 85214 9. This is a supplement to the first sixteen volumes of the ADB, adding...

David Clune and Ken Turner (eds.), The Premiers of New South Wales.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 1, 2006... David Clune and Ken Turner (eds.), The Premiers of New South Wales, Federation Press, Sydney, 2006; Volume 1 1856-1901, xiv + 256 pages, Volume 2 1901-2005, xvii + 539 pages; ISBN 1 86287 549 9. These two volumes are produced as part of the...

David Clune and Gareth Griffith, Decision and Deliberation: the Parliament of New South Wales 1856-2003.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 1, 2006... David Clune and Gareth Griffith, Decision and Deliberation: the Parliament of New South Wales 1856-2003, Federation Press, Sydney, 2006, xv + 735 pages; ISBN 1 86287 591 X. This publication is part of the commemoration of the...

Gerald Stone, 1932: a hell of a year.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 1, 2006... Gerald Stone, 1932: a hell of a year, Pan Macmillan Australia, Sydney, 2005, xii + 429 pages; ISBN 1 40503677 X. Gerald Stone is possibly best-known as the American-born producer of Channel Nine's current affairs show Sixty Minutes. His...